Selling Plasma

I recently attended a meeting at Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews' office with two infected hemophiliacs to beg her not to license private paid-blood-donor clinics. Just before we entered the room one of them whispered, "Will it ever end?"

Introducing a paid-donor system for blood products could compromise Canada's blood supply and is not justified, a group of physicians says. The chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare said she was sho...

Two Canadian companies are willing to pay blood donors to get their plasma. Canadian Plasma Resources in Toronto and CanGene Plasma in Winnipeg are both promoting compensation for plasma donors on th...